From roses to lilies, flowers provide beauty

Flowers convey the many messages of love

Almost every wedding today is graced with flowers. From the bride's bouquet to the church's pews, flowers have become a way of expressing a couple's individuality and adding beauty to an already extraordinary event.

Flowers are not only an extension of the bride and grooms personality, but they express a language all their own, and incorporating their beauty throughout the wedding takes planning and a short lesson in the language of flowers.

Symbolically, flowers have come to represent different things throughout the years.

Many brides choose flowers for their wedding that have sentimental value. Perhaps it was the first flower she received from her fiance or maybe the flower her mother carried down the aisle at her wedding.

For brides who want to create their own tradition, the meanings of individual flowers can help with the decision.

One of the more traditional flowers most often used at formal weddings is the rose.

This customary flower's colors represent many different emotions and the rose is the most widely given flower in the name of love.